On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, ‘crushably dank citrus-forward IPA’ collab stays stylistically straight-ahead as tangy yellow grapefruit, navel orange and pineapple zesting soaks up sticky pine hop resin.
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ASLIN / CUSHWA JUST AD-LIB IT DOUBLE IPA
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, juicy citrus tang permeates sugary pale malt bottom of nifty Maryland/Virginia IPA collab. Mild lemony orange-peeled grapefruit bittering sits across peachy nectarine sweetness with dank cannabis-oiled hops just below the mix.
PHASE THREE / OTHER HALF ALL PIXEL EVERYTHING
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, tropical fruit-lacquered DDH IIPA combines zesty Citra hop tropicalia with grape-soured Nelson Sauvin/Motueka hop esters. Spectral marmalade frontage gathers grapefruit, mandarin orange and bergamot tang embraced by brisk lemon-limey guava tartness and distant dank pine resin.
INTERBORO / OTHER HALF ANOTHER DOSE DOUBLE IPA
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, creamily frothed ‘orange creamsicle’ promotes peachy pineapple and grapefruit tang for zesty double dry-hopped collab. Sticky lupulin dusting adds minor pine resin for spritzy coniferous-coned citrus continuance.
CAROLINA AMERICAN IPA
Straightforward moderate-medium body lets mild burnt orange tartness, laidback navel orange rind bittering and subtle yellow grapefruit briskness merge above tea-like pale malting.
BLACK NARROWS COCKLE CREEK SCOTTISH ALE
On tap at Blarney Stone – Onancock, dewy copper browned Scottish ale offers peaty Scotch-licked barley restraint to dried fruited orange oiling, mild green grape esters and biscuity flouring in flattish setting.
BOLERO SNORT WAVEGRAZER
On tap at Paragon, sessionable Berliner Weiss retains gose-like salted lemon souring, vinous green grape sour ale pucker and bitter yellow grapefruit luster for limey tangerine adjunct. Heftily zestful lemony grapefruit waft persists. In the can, high acidity beckons for extremely tart limey tangerine salting and bitter lemon-peeled souring. Fizzy lime soda alternative for ultimate sourheads.
TARBORO SEED SPITTER WATERMELON GOSE
On tap at Buffalo City Jug Shop, salted watermelon rind tartness given slight lemon-seeded bittering over earthen soiling for easygoing summertime light body circa 2022.
NEW ANTHEM THE SAME COIN KOLSCH
Slightly sour lemon seeded musk gains herbal lemongrass licks, grassy hop astringency and salty spice spec over wet-grained sourdough breading for OK kolsch.
ICARUS DAS BESTE KOLSCH
On tap at Paragon, fine crisply centrist kolsch utilizes cereal-grained Belgian pilsner malts and honeyed Vienna malts to anchor lemon-dropped Saaz/Hallertau-hopped herbage. Mild banana sweetness and wispy champagne esters sneak in.
CAROLINA SKY BLUE KOLSCH
Brisk ultra-clean, cold fermented German-style kolsch (formerly labeled a golden ale and marketed since the nineties) brings spritzy lemon zesting, herbal lemongrass zing and tonic-like phenol spicing to bready malt base for easygoing summertime quencher. Mild raw-honeyed maize dryness and fizzy lemon spurt reach grassy hop herbage.
DEPARTED SOLES LIEVITA BLONDE ALE
On tap at Paragon, peculiar aluminum-cleared sourdough-fermented blonde ale supplants lemony Cascade-Citra hop zesting with floured sugar powdering and slumbering banana daquiri sweetness as ‘acidic farmhouse funk’ levels off atop glutenous oated wheat crusting. Serve with pizza.
